Broward Sheriff's deputies were investigating an incident at a South Florida gun shop Saturday afternoon, in which a patron accidentally fired a gun and was struck in the leg. The mishap occurred at the National Armory, a gun store and shooting range at 1315 SW 1 Court, Pompano Beach, according to the sheriff's office. A spokeswoman for BSO had few details, including whether the injured individual was a man or a woman. The wounded person was transported to North Broward Medical Center and reportedly was conscious and alert.

Here's more proof that Floridians will steal anything ... anything. Guess jewelry or makeup just isn't her thing . Cops are currently on the lookout for a woman who has her finger on the pulse, as in electrical pulse: She was seen on surveillance video swiping a circuit breaker from the Bullet Hole gun shop in Sarasota, reports WWSB ABC News-7 in Sarasota. Her next stop, if caught: circuit court. Get the DUHtails at WWSB ABC News-7 in Sarasota. More FloriDUH

A 22-year-old man, flashing a Broward sheriff's badge, claimed to be an undercover deputy to get a discount on a firearm at a gun shop, authorities said. He also tried to trade a firearm and other accessories, including sunglasses, to make the deal, they said. But his outlook was far from sunny. When the shop owner became suspicious, real deputies were called to the Tactical Firearms store in Pompano Beach on Monday and arrested Christopher Everhardt, of Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, according to a BSO report.

The federal government believed Colby Sue Weathers was a paranoid schizophrenic. It had information she was delusional and suicidal, unable to work and therefore eligible for Medicaid and disability benefits. One summer day in 2012, Weathers cashed her government check, bought a .45 caliber pistol from a Missouri gun shop, returned home and shot her father dead. So here's the question: If the federal government can consider a person mentally ill enough to receive financial benefits, why can't it also decide that person is dangerous enough to be banned from buying a gun?

Two agencies are investigating whether criminal and civil proceedings should be started against the operators of a gun shop that sold a handgun, later used in a suicide, without requiring the victim to get a county purchase permit. An attorney for Broward County said that if it is determined Lauderdale Rod and Gun violated the county handgun control law, she will move to start proceedings that could cost the Fort Lauderdale store its license to sell weapons. Meanwhile, a detective for the city Wednesday delivered his findings in the death of Yolanda McBride, 23, to the Broward State Attorney`s Office for review.

LAUDERDALE LAKES -- A loaded submachine gun that had been reported stolen last year from a gun shop in Monroe County was found on Tuesday in a car parked in the 3700 block of Northwest 21st Street, the Broward Sheriff`s Office said. Deputies found the weapon under the seat of a 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88, the Sheriff`s Office said. The registered owner of the car said it had been parked there and abandoned for more than two months, the Sheriff`s Office said. A deputy checked the car after the Sheriff`s Office received an anonymous tip that there were narcotics in the car, the Sheriff`s Office said.

The Broward County Commission paid $70,000 on Tuesday to settle a thorny lawsuit brought by the owners of a gun shop at the Markham Park target range. Commissioners said that taking the matter to court would be too expensive. A trial was to have begun on Feb. 15. In addition to the $70,000 cash settlement, taxpayers will have to pay $28,130 in legal costs and forfeit the concession fee at the target range until another company is chosen to run the shop. Last year, the fee brought in $30,573 for the county at a rate of $2,000 a month plus 5 percent of sales.

Businesses that sell ammunition are opposing a bill that would raise the price of most bullets by 1 percent to set up educational trust funds for the children of police officers killed in Florida. "If the bill passes, the only thing it will do is cause a business to add on more bookkeeping responsibilities in order to keep an account of the revenue," said Clint VanderPool, owner of AA Lock & Gun Shop in Fort Lauderdale. "The burden would be shifted to the clerks who will have to establish special bookkeeping techniques to keep up with the revenue generated from the tax."

A Broward Circuit Court jury needed only an hour on Wednesday to decide that a man who was embittered over his firing as manager of a Pompano Beach gun shop mailed a live grenade to his former boss. Charles A. Zito, 45, was convicted of attempted first-degree murder and sending a destructive device. When he is sentenced on Nov. 9, he faces 12 to 17 years in prison under state guidelines, Assistant State Attorney Mark Springer said. Zito, of Coconut Creek, was arrested in August 1989 after the U.S. Postal Service delivered a live military grenade -- with the pin pulled -- to Shooters Emporium, from which Zito had been fired a few months earlier.

The arrest this week of a Miami gun shop owner was part of a four-month crackdown that has taken hundreds of guns and 750,000 rounds of ammunition out of the hands of criminals in South Florida, federal authorities said Thursday. Joseph Ruiz, owner of Dade County Guns & Ammo, was freed on bail Thursday while he awaits trial on charges he schemed to export military-style weapons to Venezuela, where they were sold to Colombian rebel and paramilitary groups. His lawyer, Alexander Kapetanakis, said Ruiz is a law-abiding man who was duped by others.

The idea of a weapon that can only be discharged by its owner makes so much sense that it's hard to fathom why anyone would be against it. Yet the NRA officially opposes it, with extreme prejudice. A gun shop in California that began selling the Armatix iP1 (which comes with a wristwatch-like device that must be worn in order for the pistol to fire), was so deluged by angry emails from gun rights advocates that it immediately dropped the product line. In an Orwellian twist, the business claimed it had never sold the weapon at all - despite photographic evidence to the contrary.

A 22-year-old man, flashing a Broward sheriff's badge, claimed to be an undercover deputy to get a discount on a firearm at a gun shop, authorities said. He also tried to trade a firearm and other accessories, including sunglasses, to make the deal, they said. But his outlook was far from sunny. When the shop owner became suspicious, real deputies were called to the Tactical Firearms store in Pompano Beach on Monday and arrested Christopher Everhardt, of Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, according to a BSO report.

Deerfield Beach's pioneering law regulating businesses near areas where children congregate got an endorsement from the Broward Sheriff's Office's Youth Intervention & Enforcement Division last week, then won final approval from the four commissioners present. Speaking in his capacity as an expert in school security, BSO Lt. Anthony DeMarco praised the city's effort to mediate between the demands of development and the safety of citizens, especially children, by regulating how those businesses may operate.

Dear NRA, Really? This is how you're going to respond? With the same tired cliches? By doubling down on guns (a weapon in every schoolhouse!), ramping up the fear, and not even broaching the possibility of some common-sense restrictions on rapid-fire guns and ammunition to keep the carnage in check? In the wake of the Newtown tragedy, and its heartbreaking string of children's funerals, it felt like something had changed across America. But then came Friday afternoon, and your shameful "press conference.

Though opponents portrayed him as anti-capitalist, President Obama's re-election has proven a boon to at least one business segment: Florida gun shop owners. "Business has been brisk," said Mike Caruso, longtime owner of the Delray Shooting Center in Palm Beach County . "We've probably over the last month had a 25 percent increase. " State figures reflect that uptick. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which tracks gun sales by the number of background checks requested by sellers, show a distinct jump after the Nov. 6 election day as compared with last year.

Miami Dolphins tailback Reggie Bush told the Paul and Young Ron morning show that he's having a baby, confirming tabloid rumors that Lilit Avagyan, his girlfriend of nearly a year, is pregnant with his first child. According to the tabloids, Avagyan is about 12 weeks pregnant. "I have a little one on the way. We're pretty excited. We haven't found out if its a boy or a girl," Bush said during an interview you can find here. "It's an opportunity to raise a child. That's the most special gift for a man and a woman.

Boy, those drug dealers, mercenaries and space aliens sure are a demanding bunch. "They want bazookas. They want mortars. They always want the latest in firepower. I finally succeeded in getting a light anti-tank weapon, but that took some doing." It`s a tough job supplying Hollywood`s top guns with top guns, but Pat Squire, an unlikely looking arms dealer, seems to get a bang out of it. "It`s a lot of fun to see our weapons in the movies and on TV," says the 40-year-old Cooper City resident whose company, Firearms Import and Export Corp.

Broward Sheriff's deputies were investigating an incident at a South Florida gun shop Saturday afternoon, in which a patron accidentally fired a gun and was struck in the leg. The mishap occurred at the National Armory, a gun store and shooting range at 1315 SW 1 Court, Pompano Beach, according to the sheriff's office. A spokeswoman for BSO had few details, including whether the injured individual was a man or a woman. The wounded person was transported to North Broward Medical Center and reportedly was conscious and alert.